1993

March

Established Eighting Co., Ltd. to develop, design, produce and sell game software, with the Head Office in Ota-ku, Tokyo, and paid-in capital of 3 million yen.

 

May

Developed and launched the company’s first product, Sorcerer Striker, an arcade shooting game.

 

November

Changed corporate structure from a limited liability company to a joint stock company.

1994

December

Developed and launched software for a home video game version of our original arcade puzzle game as our first console software product, marking the beginning of aggressive development and sales of home video game software based on our originally-developed arcade games.

1996

July

Developed and launched 3D fighting game, Bloody Roar, both for arcades and PlayStation console.

2000

June

Entered the mobile content business by providing the adventure novel game, Summer Vacation at Baron House, currently provided by Dokiwaku Ke-tai Syoten on i-mode, which is operated by NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

 

October

Enhanced development capabilities and expanded the outsourced home video game software creation business by acquiring Rising Co., Ltd. and Logic & Magic Ltd. (paid-in capital: 22.25 million yen)

 

November

Relocated Head Office to Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.

2001

March

Began providing network role-playing game, Ke-tai Ninja Jo! for i-mode.

2002

December

Registered a patent for a personal authentication system based on analyzing unique musical sound data transmitted by the user’s mobile phone.

2003

April

Planned and developed the 3D fighting game NARUTO—Gekito Ninja Taisen! for the home video game market.

 

July

Launched the Character Committee website for PC users.
Entered licensing business by distributing our original characters.

2004

February

Developed and started selling stuffed toys Bubble Rabbit and Yin Yang Panda to game arcades.
Launched CHARAMOBA, a general site for mobile phone users.

 

April

Started providing for i-mode our Musical Mobile content (currently Musical Café), specialized ringtones taken from musicals.

 

September

Started providing mobile content for Vodafone live! Internet service operated by Vodafone Group Plc. (Note: Vodafone live! was replaced by Yahoo! Keitai after Vodafone Group’s Japanese mobile phone unit was purchased by SoftBank Mobile Corp.)

 

October

Started providing mobile content for EZweb, a mobile Internet service operated by KDDI Corporation.

2005

June

Started providing Gain—Sorcerer Striker, a BREW version of our original arcade shooting game, Sorcerer Striker, for EZweb.

 

December

Listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

2008

August

Established EIGHTING OKINAWA Co.,Ltd. (paid-in capital: 15 million yen) to reinforce system development and implemented our intranet.

2010

October

Established EIGHTING NETWORKS Co.,Ltd. (paid-in capital: 15 million yen) to perform a development, planning, production, distribution and management of the online game.

 

November

Established 「Sapporo Studio」 (Sapporo City in Hokkaido) to reinforce system development.

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